Farewell, The

A poignant, bittersweet, down-to-earth, well-acted, wit-dotted, heartwarming, well-written, melancholy, 98-minute film, allegedly based on a lie, in which a Chinese-American (Awkwafina) ignores the wishes of her distraught translator father (Tzi Ma) and mother (Diana Lin) by leaving New York City to follow them to Changchun, China, see her kindhearted, wise grandmother (Zhao Shuzhen) who is cared for by her younger sister (Lu Hong) while being kept in the dark about her impending death after a terminal lung cancer diagnosis and the worried, traditional Asian family uses the upcoming nuptials of her cousin (Han Hanwei) to his Japanese girlfriend (Aoi Mizuhara) as an excuse for the emotional, extended family visit.
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